If You Forget Me Poem by Manish Jain

If You Forget Me

I want you to know
one thing.

You know how this is:

if I touch near the fire
the ash
or
the wrinkled body of the log,
everything carries me to you,
as if everything that exists,
light, metals,
were little boats
that sail me
toward you.

Well, now,
if little by little you stop loving me
I shall stop loving you little by little.

If suddenly
you forget me
do not look for me,
for I shall already have forgotten you.

if you decide
to leave me at the shore
of the heart where I have roots,
remember
that on that day,
at that hour,
I shall lift my arms
and my roots will set in to the water.
But still, as tide, I'll rise.


You may shoot me with your words,
You may cut me with your eyes,
You may kill me with your smile
But still, like air, I'll rise.
But
if some day,
you feel that you are alone..
can feel me in dust around you
can feel me in air that just touches you
can feel me in yourself...................